“This request for marriage is, in effect, sort of asking the government to regulate our relationships, or at least give gay people the opportunity to be regulated by the government,” commented Professor Carlos Ball in the article “Gay marriage: The ‘unthinkable’ became reality, for some.” (Washington Post, 5/10/12)

Commenting on the regulation of home schooling in New Jersey, Professor Paul Tractenberg said, “I don’t know whether anyone does anything to relly evaluate in a comprehensive way what's going on with home schooling.” (Asbury Park Press, 5/10/12)

“My personal view is you’re buying a lot of problems when you make available public funding to support parochial schools,” said Professor Paul Tractenberg. (Asbury Park Press, 5/1/12) 

Adjunct Professor Abed Awad was interviewed about the case of a U.S.-born mother whose three children have been relocated to the Gaza Strip by their Palestinian father, the subject of federal charges of illegally moving the children in violation of the couple’s divorce decree. (Associated Press, 5/2/12)

“I don't know of another statute that has an element based on the mental state of the victim,” said Professor Louis Raveson in commenting on the application of the bias statute in the trial of Dharun Ravi. (Star-Ledger, 5/2/12)

Professor Mark Weiner was one of the signers of a letter to the editor pointing out that, in response to the sinking of the Titanic, the international community decided to “create a better legal and regulatory structure to ensure public safety.” (Wall Street Journal, 4/27/12)

Rutgers Law School students hope to build on their recent trip to Israel, where they studied the country’s child welfare system, by hosting some Israeli students in Newark next fall. (New Jersey Jewish News, 4/25/12) 

Assistant Professor Anjum Gupta, commenting on the Arizona immigration enforcement law which is the subject of Arizona v. United States, to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on April 25, said such statutes “would encourage racial profiling and cause immigrants to be less willing to report crimes or otherwise cooperate with the police for fear of drawing attention to themselves or their family members.” (Record, 4/22/12)

Illegal downloading is more similar to the crime of trespass than theft, said Professor Stuart Green  (Australian Broadcasting Company, 4/20/12) 

In his speech at the Rutgers Law Review symposium, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez identified concerns with recent redistricting efforts effecting the Texas state House and congressional maps. (San Antonio Express-News, 4/18/12)

The Community Law Clinic’s assistance in setting up the job seekers’ group Neighbors Helping Neighbors as a non-profit “will propel us to the next level,” said the creator of the group. (Patch, 4/17/12)

In a Help me Howard segment titled “Online sneaker deal was too good to be true,” Clinical Professor John Kettle explained that the law generally finds that such a transaction based on the mistakes of others is “not an enforceable contract.” (WPIX, 4/16/12)

Speaking after the announcement of Robert L. Barchi as the next president of Rutgers University, Dean John J. Farmer Jr., who was a member of the presidential search committee, said of Dr. Barchi: “He had a real vision for what the university's role is in the state and the region and the country, which we all shared.” (Star-Ledger, 4/12/12)

Human Rights First reported on the attention drawn by the conference “Immigrant Detainees: Alone, Unrepresented & Imprisoned,” held at the law school on March 23, to the need for additional pro bono legal services for immigrants detained in New Jersey. (4/10/12) 

Interviewed about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, Professor David Troutt said: “The very clear lesson that comes out of this terrible episode is that this law is a categorical mistake and has to be repealed wherever it exists.” (Rutgers Today, 4/5/12)

“When you charge someone, particularly a public figure, you essentially ruin their life,” said Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. in an article about public officials linked to a public corruption sting who either were never charged or whose charges were later dismissed. (Associated Press, 4/1/12)  

Professor George Thomas was interviewed for an article about a New Jersey Supreme Court case involving whether a warrant was needed to search a house occupied by college students that was the subject of a noise complaint. (Asbury Park Press, 4/1/12)

If the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate and the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, “the next question becomes whether there is enough pressure on Congress to salvage portions of the law,” said Assistant Professor Christina Ho. (Asbury Park Press, 3/28/12) Ho also was interviewed by My9TV about the challenges to the Affordable care Act that are before the Supreme Court. (3/26/12)

“We saw the same exact issues we see in towns like Newark. This kind of service in the community should be part of the curriculum,” said Joy Durham ’12 of her exchange trip to Ben Gurion University. (New Jersey Jewish News, 3/27/12) 

U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez ’79 told the more than 200 attendees at the law school’s conference “Immigrant Detainees: Alone, Unrepresented & Imprisoned” that the current system “has no laws on the books about how the government treats people in detention, only nonbinding standards.” (Star-Ledger, 3/24/12) A representative from the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project said "A fundamentyal shift is needed in how we look at detention, and to see detention as a last resort." (Associated Press, 3/23/12) 

“There is a lot of risk of backfiring,” said Professor Louis Raveson about Dharun Ravi’s making media appearances in the lead up to his sentencing following the guilty verdict in the Tyler Clementi bias intimidation case. (Record, 3/23/12)

Professor Frank Askin commented on Gov. Christie’s nominees to the New Jersey Supreme Court. (NJPR, 3/22/12)

“We really want to highlight in the conference how much of a difference representation makes,” explained Assistant Professor and Immigrant Rights Clinic Director Anjum Gupta in talking about the March 23 conference at the law school titled “Immigrant Detainees: Alone, Unrepresented & Imprisoned.” (Star-Ledger, 3/23/12) 

Professor Stuart Green commented on the shooting of an unarmed Florida teenager and that state’s statute that can protect from arrest or prosecution a person who successfuly claims self-defense. (BBC News magazine, 3/20/12)

Professor Louis Raveson and Clinical Professor Laura Cohen were quoted in articles about the Dharun Ravi cyberbullying trial verdict. (New Jersey Public Radio, Star-Ledger, Record, MSNBC, 3/16-17/12)

“The court is not going to overturn 70 years of decisions that have upheld the power of Congress to act on issues of interstate commerce,” said Professor Frank Askin of the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (Star-Ledger, 3/13/12)

“It’s not often that you get three university institutions working with each other so closely like that,” said NJIT Assistant Dean Paul Dine of the service trip to the Dominican Republic organized by Associate Dean Andy Rothman. (Star-Ledger, 3/11/12)

Professor Paul Tractenberg commented on the Minority Student Program and the Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action case. (Asbury Park Press, 3/9/12)

“I have no doubt that you will be regarded as one of the greatest jurists of your generation and perhaps of any generation,” Justice Barry Albin said of New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Virgina Long ’66 upon her stepping down from the court at the mandatory retirement age of 70. (Star-Ledger, 3/5/12) 

“There haven't been many prosecutions quite like this, so it’s hard to know how it will play out,” said Professor Louis Raveson of the hate crime trial of a former Rutgers University student. (New York Times, 2/25/12)

“My take is that the governor cannot do this under the reorganization act,” said Vice Dean Ronald Chen about the proposed realignment involving UMDNJ, Rutgers University, Rutgers–Camden, and Rowan University. (Asbury Park Press, 2/21/12) 

Professor Louis Raveson was quoted in an article about the hate crime charge in the case involving the suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi. (Star-Ledger, 2/19/12)

Professor Bernard Bell was interviewed about the likelihood that Pfizer could be held liable for unintended pregnancies resulting from packaging mistakes for its birth control pills. (Star-Ledger, 2/12/12) Bell also commented on a local citizen’s complaint that a Township Committee press briefing on its school district’s budget surplus violated the Open Public Meeting Act. (Asbury Park Press, 2/12/12)

The LGBTQ Caucus, headed by caucus president Iris Bromberg ’13, has written to the Council on State Mandates in support of the state’s new anti-bullying law. (Star-Ledger, 1/26/12)

Interviewed about the suggestion that the legalization of same-sex marriage should be put on the ballot as a referendum, Vice Dean Ronald Chen noted that women’s suffrage was defeated when put to a public vote in 1915. (Daily Record, 1/25/12)

Legal Research & Writing Instructor Barbara Hoffman, who is founding director of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, was quoted in the article “Medical debt puts more at risk.” (Record, 1/22/12)

Commenting on a request by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office that prosecutors be given the birth dates of potential jurors so they can conduct a criminal background check, Professor Louis Raveson noted that there is “a balance of interests between the privacy of jurors and the efforts of the justice system to have a fair process and accurate outcomes in cases.” (Star-Ledger, 1/13/12)